I have been researching early dovetailing machines on the internet and there seems to be very few. I hoped to find some developments of the W B Haigh machine that I have been using for the past 40 years and maybe be able to date the machine, but unfortunately not. I would guess it was made somewhere between 1895 and 1910. There seems to be so few dovetailing machines from this era so I thought it might be of interest to some to document this machine on this comprehensive site.

Comments:Back of machine: showing a large cog driven by a worm screw below, two speed flat pulley with a fine tolerance cone within, that is disengaged via the clutch lever at the front of the machine, cutter up and down slide, cutter drive pulley.Source:My camera.

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Comments:Dept. WW. Group No. 1. No. W 143Source:My camera.

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Comments:Always been happy with the dovetails that it produced.Source:My camera.

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Comments:The machine even rounds the bottom of the tails.Source:My camera.

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